This is beautiful, funny and worrying at the same time. Giles Coren’s letter to the Times sub-editors about the removal of the indefinite article “a” from a sentence and the subsequent response.

Be warned - contains copious profanities, bad grammar and a glimpse into the tense realtionship between writers and sub-editors.

Southern Spain. An internet kiosk in the lobby of a residential block. A portly woman with two young children pulls up a chair and gazes at the screen.

“How come this is not in English?”